St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-12-22
LOVE LIGHTS THEIR WAY.
Struggles of Young Married
Couple to Keep the Wolf From
tho Door

Struggles OF Young Married
Couple to Keep the Wolf From
the Door.
There is young married couple in
Milwaukee who have found it uphill
work to get along in the world. They
came here two or three months ago tt
find work, having been married but
few days. The parents of both are we'll
to-do people, and it was no runaway
match, for two pairs of paternal hands
were laid on their heads in blessing
when they plighted their trOth,
says the Milwaukee Sentinel.
In fact. the young benedict's
father manifested his good will
by giving him $1,000 in cold cash, and
told him to buy farm with it. The
next Sunday they took a buggy ride,
and when they stepped out from the
vehicle the young man found that he
had lost his money. A distracted search
was made, but the person who had
picked up the purse hadn't taken the
trouble to advertise the fact very extern
sively. Not daring to tell his father that
he had lost the money. the young man
agreed with his wife that they
should go as far away as the money
they had would take them and try to earn
the money back before returning home.
They found they had just money enough
to take them to Milwaukee, and on they
came. When they had been here
week they found that making living
in a hard, cruel world was not like
lying down on feather-bed and hay
i,,cr tho old foIt-c IA parp Of Won The
boarding house keeper threatened to fire
them out bodily if they didn't pay up;
they hadn't money enough to take
street car ride, and no prospect of get
ting any. They used the medium of the
''want" column to tell an inquiring pub
lie that man and his wife wanted
position together, the one as cook or
domestic, the other as gardener or
hoStler or utility man about the house.
1t happened that just such couple was
wanted about that time at the Mitchell
farm in the town of Greenfield. 1t
turned out that the man would answer
very well, but the young wife proved to
he very bad cook.
'sCan you bake bread?" she was asked.
She sadly said she couldn't. Other
questions elected the fact that she didn't
know enough about cooking to boil eggs,
and so, of course, there was no job for
her at the farm. Determined to live or
starve together, the husband threw up
his job, too. 1t became necessary for
the couple to change boarding-h0nses,
and in this operation they left their
trunks behind. When finally things
looked pretty desperate for them they
decided that perhaps, after all, they
could not get places jointly, and the
girl accepted situation in West
Side family as second girl. The hus-
band made up his mind that he couldn't
get job in Milwaukee and determined
to go to Oshkosh. He had no money,
and so one fine morning he started on
foot for the home of the base ball cham
pions. When he came to the stockyardS,
Just beyond the city limits, he was graf
flied to find that he could get a place
there, and he went to work at once. He
works there yet, and his wife is now
employed in a laundry. The curious
feature of the affair is that through all
their trouble they have never faltered
III their resolution never to write home
until they have earned 81 600.